060618

Local businessman Geoff McGuinness has recently canvassed other local businesses and found that many, like him, are “feeling the pinch” from missing out on the lucrative trade brought into town by free campers. Mr McGuinness said while free campers are still coming to Cobar they aren’t arriving in the same […]

A local mother who has had cause to use the services of Angel Flight to gain access to medical treatment for two of her children cannot speak more highly of the service. Angela Cox and her seven year old daughter Phoenix hitched a ride with Angel Flight pilot Neville Page […]

The Empire Hotel’s darts team, the Empire Barflies, have continued their dominance of the local darts competition with another win last week over Golfie Spearchuckers. The Empire Barflies had a convincing 9-2 win. In the other games played last week Western 180s narrowly beat Grand Slams 6-5; RSL Outlaws had […]

The Cobar Little Athletics Club is up and running again after a new committee was recently elected. The club had earlier been in dire straits when they failed to get enough interest to form a committee at their annual general meeting last month. A new committee was however elected at […]

There was a very rare occurrence last week as rain on Tuesday night was enough to close the back of the golf course for the ladies’ competition game on Wednesday. As a consequence the scheduled Stroke game was played with three goes at the six holes available on the front. […]

Staff and residents at the Lilliane Brady Village (LBV) last week celebrated the completion of their re-accreditation audit and also the milestone 25 years service of one of their staff. A special morning tea was held on Friday to celebrate their three years re-accreditation for the hostel section of the […]

Cobar’s Tambua Poll Merino Stud has been mixing it with the best of the wool industry in the western region. The Evans family local stud received some excellent results at the Cobar, Nyngan and Warren shows as well as the NSW State Sheep Show at Dubbo. “Warren Show is our […]

Lisa, Gracie and Montana Dowling shaved off their long locks on Saturday to raise money for the Cancer Council. It started out as Gracie’s idea to raise money and her aunt Lisa said she would do it too. Lisa’s daughter Montana then piped up and said she wanted to shave […]

Cobar Junior Rugby League president Simone Knight was thrilled with the club’s four wins from their five games on Saturday for Round 5 of the Dubbo & District Junior Rugby League competition. “It was a good day to be a Rooster,” Mrs Knight told The Cobar Weekly. The Under 10s […]